Oxford, Feb. 19. 1850.


_Norman Pedigrees._--Your correspondent "B." (No. 14. p. 214.) would
probably find part of the information he seeks in _Domesday Book, seu
Censualis Willelmi Primi Regis Angliæ_. But query? Is "B." right in
supposing the prefix "De" to be _French_? Does it not rather originate
in the _Latin_?

"Domesday" is written in Latin throughout; and the "de," denoting the
place, is there occasionally followed by what seems to be the Latin
ablative case. I copy an example:--

"Canonici de Hansone ten. l. hida de Sansone," (i.e. loc. in
co. Stafford.)

Then of the person it is said--

"Sanson ten. de rege, &c.... iii. hid. træ in Hargedone," &c.

J.S.


_Translation of Ælian._--In answer to the query of "G.M." in No. 15.
p. 232., I beg to state that in Lowndes's _Manual_, vol. i. p. 13., is
the following notice under the head of "Ælianus Claudius:"--

"Various Histories translated by T. Stanley, London, 1665,
8vo. 5s. This translation is by the son of the learned editor